85-12-Ordinance-Amending the Sewer Service Rates-06/17/1985CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS C'Ty SECRETARY
ORDINANCE NO. 85-12
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 10, SECTION 4 OF THE CODE
OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS, ENTITLED
SEWER SERVICE RATES, ESTABLISHING NEW SEWER RATES
INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS, ESTABLISHING RATES
FOR MULTI -FAMILY DWELLINGS; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF
ORDINANCES IN, CONFLICT; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING
FOR A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS:
SECTION I
THAT CHAPTER 10, SECTION 4 OF THE SANGER CODE OF 'ORDINANCES IS
HEREBY AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 4: SEWER SERVICE RATES
The rates to be charged by the city for sanitary sewer
service are hereby established as set forth in this
section.
A. INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS
A user classification is hereby established for all
users of the municipal wastewater facilities inside
the city limits of Sanger, Texas, as follows:
User Classification: Class A: Residential Users
Class B: Commercial Users
Class A users shall include all residential type
users including, but not limited to, residences,
apartment units, trailer court units, duplexes, or
any other service primarily intended for domestic
or residep.tiaJ_ type use. The city may include
small office buildings-, churches, and other
low volume (similar to domestic volume) users
in Class A.
Class B users shall include commercial
as but not limited to, restaurants,
users, such
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All Class A users of municipal facilities sha
charged a minimum of $6.00 per month, plus a charge
of $0.60 per 1000 gallons of metered water consumption
in excess of 1000 gallons. All Class B users of
municipal facilities shall be charged a minimum
of $11.00 per month plus a charge of $0.60 per
1000 gallons of metered water consumption in
excess of 1000 gallons. The water consumption
to be used to establish sewer billings shall be
the actual water consumption for each customer during
the month of the previous year exhibiting the lowest
city wide water use so as not to account for water
used for such purposes as lawn and garden watering
from which water is not returned to wastewater
facilities.
New connections to the system shall be billed at the
average city wide sewer billing rate for each customer
during the month for the respective class of use until
which time a rate can be established based upon actual
use.
B. OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS
Same as subsection A above, except that the monthly
billing calculated thereunder will be multiplied by
two hundred percent (200%).
C. MULTI_FAMILY DWELLINGS
The amount due for multi -family :dwellings shall be the
residential rate multiplied by the number of occupied
dwelling units.
SECTION II
All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith
are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
SECTION III
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections,.paragraphs, sentences, clauses,
and phrases of this Ordinance are severable and, if any
phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this
Ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid
judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction,
such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the
remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and
sections of this Ordinance, since the same would have been
enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in
this Ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause,
sentence, paragraph, or section.
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SECTION IV
Whenever in this.Ordinance an act is prohibited or is made
or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor,
or wherever in such Ordinance, the doing of an act is
required or the failure to do any act is declared to be
unlawful, the violation of any such provision shall be
punished by a.fine of not exceeding Two Hundred ($200.00)
Dollars; provided, however, that no.penalty shall be
greater or less than the penalty provided for the same or
similar offense under the laws of the State. Each day
any violation of this Ordinance shall continue shall
constitute a separate offense.
SECTION V
This. Ordinance will take effect immediately from and after
its passage and the publication of the caption as the law
in such cases provides.
PASSED AND APPROVED this day of , 1985►
by the City -Co uncil of the City of Sange , Texas.
ATTEST:
Ci y •retary
APPROVED:
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Run 1-Tlme. June 27, 1985
PUBLIC NOTICE
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 10, SECTION 4, OF THE CODE
OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS, ENTITLED SEWER
SERVICE RATES, ESTABLISHING NEW SEWER RATES INSIDE AND OUT-
SIDE THE CITY LIMITS, ESTABLISHING RATES FOR MULTI -FAMILY
DWELLINGS; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE
DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 17TH DAY OF JUNE, 1985.
S/S MAYOR NEL ARMSTRONG